Consultation and Community Engagement Diary
The Wealden Consultation and Community Engagement Diary tracks the Council's engagement activity and helps you to find out more about a wide variety of activities that Wealden is planning or which you are able to have your say on now. It also stores consultation and engagement events from 2009 onwards, so that you can see the results and what suggested improvements we have been able to introduce.
Take a look at the featured activities below, or click the 'Search' button to search all consultations and engagement events in the directory.
Featured Consultations
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Status: Closed (Results Pending)
A survey of council tenants who have reported antisocial behaviour and had their case closed in the past 12 months.
Who can take part in this Consultation?
Start Date:
Wednesday 25 April 2018
End Date:
Friday 11 May 2018
Results Expected Date:
Monday 21 May 2018
Status: Closed (Results Pending)
We have produced a revised draft allocations policy which looks at who is eligible for social housing in Wealden.
Who can take part in this Consultation?
- Housing Tenants
- Older People
- Partners in the Public Sector
- Service Users
- Town and Parish Councils
- Voluntary and Community Sector Organisations
- Wealden Residents
- Young People
Start Date:
Wednesday 04 April 2018
End Date:
Wednesday 02 May 2018
Results Expected Date:
Monday 14 May 2018
Status: Closed (Results Published)
The Draft Homelessness Strategy 2018-23 sets out the Council's priorities in relation to homelessness in the district.
Key Findings and changes made:
There were 62 responses to the consultation, 4
email responses and 58 responses to the online survey. Responses were received from
a range of stakeholders with 3 email responses from organisations and 1 from an
individual. 49 of the online responses were from individuals and 9 from
organisations.
The key findings of the survey accompanying the
draft document were:
89.7%
of respondents agree that preventing homelessness and meeting our obligations
under the Homelessness Reduction Act should be a strategic priority.
Tenant Training and Skills Survey
Status: Closed (Results Published)
Survey of WDC tenants and leaseholders to identify skills and training needs. Key Findings and changes made:
Start Date:
Monday 11 December 2017
End Date:
Monday 18 December 2017
Results Expected Date:
Wednesday 28 February 2018
Status: Closed (Results Published)
Wealden District Council is seeking views on its proposed budget for 2018/19 and its Medium Term Financial Strategy for 2018 to 2023.
Key Findings and changes made:
There were a total of 38 responses to the consultation.
The results are summarised as:
-
Generally, people do not like taxes going up, although at 2.7% we
are below inflation.
- Some people want the Council to be more commercial, generate
more income and not cut services.
- Some people want the Council to cut services, reduce staff and not
become more commercial. They suggest discretionary services
Start Date:
Thursday 14 December 2017
End Date:
Wednesday 24 January 2018
Results Expected Date:
Wednesday 21 February 2018
Status: Closed (Results Published)
The Healthy New Year Survey will help us to understand the current activity of Wealden residents and inform further work as part of the new Health and Wellbeing Strategy.
Key Findings and changes made:
There were a total of 358 responses to the 2018 healthy new year survey,
this is a decrease of 180 compared to last year as in 2017 there were 538
responses.
Those who told us they did complete last year’s survey were given the
opportunity to leave a comment about any positive changes they had made in 2017
– there were 21 comments left about all manner of changes, the groupings that
we identified were 5 comments about eating more healthily and 9 about joining
or starting exercise classes/structured activity (i.e. yoga, swimming
etc.).
Other highlights were; over half of respondents achieve 150+ minutes of activity each week, walking is the most popular activity and increasing activi
Start Date:
Thursday 11 January 2018
End Date:
Monday 22 January 2018
Results Expected Date:
Monday 12 February 2018